The Camry captured 28,765 sales in November, with runner-up Honda Accord a couple thousand units shy of that number at 26,248 sales -- up substantially from the 14,355 units sold in November 2011. Though Honda has been closing the gap between its Japanese rival, the Camry seems untouchable in year-to-date sales with 373,479 units sold through November compared to Accord’s 302,444 sales. With 20,305 sales, the Nissan Altima trails behind the two leaders, but is still a top player in the midsize game. The Hyundai Sonata sold 17,660 units in November, maintaining its fourth-place position for the third straight month.

Recovering from a disappointing September and October, the Ford Fusion has regained sales momentum thanks to the new 2013 model, which went on sale earlier in the fall. In November, 15,125 new Fusions were sold. Rounding out the rest of the top 10 is the Kia Optima, Volkswagen Passat, Chevrolet Malibu, Chrysler 200, and Dodge Avenger, which land in sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth place, respectively. With Camry’s dominating lead, and just one more month left in the year, it seems Toyota will keep the midsize crown for 2012.

Maybe GM will wake up and quickly redesign the Malibu, before they loose more ground. This generation's styling is worse than the last generation's, and is almost an 2nd generations prior Altima-ization of the car being sporty and cheap. GM would fix two issues if they rebadged the opel/buick regal as the malibu by giving them a better looking product and allowing buick to write off regal's slow sales and product over lap. They should sell opel products as chevy and buick have an upscale re-badging like they've done with most of their lineup. Or they should've used Impala's design for malibu, make SS impala as it should. The current Chevy design language is so cheap and awkward looking with the sole intent of the asia market. It's a shame that every-time the malibu has a good generation, the following one sucks.

I would like to see the Accord de-pants the Camry next year in sales. The Malibu is really slumping bad in sales. The Fusion stands a good chance if the too hot to handle 1.6 can quit being a Toyota special.

The Passat is really doing well in 7th place. At one time, the Passat wasn't even in the Top 20, much less the Top 10. Now it's outselling the Mazda, Subaru, Dodge, Chrysler, and the new Malibu. That's got to be a big disappointment for GM.

There are currently over 18000 open recalls, proportionally Toyota is hardly the worst offender. When you look at the list - Toyotas recalls are almost entirely preventative (not a current defect "Lets shave the gas peddle so some idiot doesnt die after putting shag carpeting on the floor") or ratings based (such as stickers for towing capacities on older cars).

Ford issues the most recalls by far and alot happen to be in the 'splosion category, but at least they try to fix the problem!

GM, VW, Hyundai/Kia, Mercedes - they only fix issues if their products are killing puppies and orphans en masse, I hate them.